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This week we return to the British Army's Balloon Factory for their first government-backed foray into airships and that creator's attempt at a successful early biplane.
This week we discuss one experimental aircraft and two early french airships that would go on to serve overseas.
Here we talk about the first Wright aircraft to be dedicated to military purposes and touch briefly on this aircraft so similar to the one that caught the publics' attention.
This episode takes us across the channel as a British officer with Boer War experience takes charge of aircraft research for the British Army.
In Ep.2 we cross the Atlantic to France where a pioneer has beginning success with aircraft and writes a prophetic piece of aeronautic literature.
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